Category: Developer News
News from the Firebird developers.
Firebird Maestro 7.3 released. Now with graphical database designer!
SQL Maestro Group is happy to announce the release of Firebird Maestro 7.3, a powerful Windows GUI solution for Firebird administration and database development. |
The main feature of the new version is the Graphical Database Designer – a case tool for managing your database in a few mouse clicks. This piece of our software is intended for creation of physical Entity Relationship Diagrams that represent objects in your Firebird databases. Each diagram displays the tables of your database and the relationships between them.
- Handy tools of Designer allow you to create new and edit existing tables and references;
- The reverse engineering feature will help you to understand the schema structure and make its modification in an easy and clear way;
- Now you can quickly and easily print your database structure with a lot of options including header and footer, paper size and orientation, etc;
- A rich set of options and settings give you a way to see your database in your own look and feel style.
A diagram of your database can help you define operational aspects of your application logic that you might otherwise overlook. Also, a well-defined data diagram that accurately represents your tasks can be helpful in orienting employees to goals and operations.
Full press-release is available here:
http://www.sqlmaestro.com/products/firebird/maestro/news/3641/
New article about optimization of network traffic in Delphi and C++ Builder applications
Devrace have published a new article “Devrace FIBPlus: Optimization of network traffic in Delphi and C++ Builder applications”. From it you will get to know:
New version of SQLAlchemy’s Firebird backend
Lele Gaifax calls for testing the new version of Firebird backend for SQLAlchemy. The source is attached to this trac ticket.
SQLAlchemy is the Python SQL toolkit and Object Relational Mapper that gives application developers the full power and flexibility of SQL.
It provides a full suite of well known enterprise-level persistence patterns, designed for efficient and high-performing database access, adapted into a simple and Pythonic domain language.
PDO database API adds Firebird support
jrmarino writes “Pascal Data Objects (PDO) is a database API that works equally well on FPC and Delphi. When I introduced this 10 months ago, only MySQL 4.0, 4.1, and 5.0 were supported. Since then, I have moved the project to Sourceforge and recently added drivers for Firebird 1.5 and 2.0. Some new abstraction capabilities were also added.”
Via lazarus.freepascal.org
Firebird support for DBExpress
Please support Firebird database with the DBExpress driver. A huge percent of the Delphi community are Firebird users and are claiming for this.
Or at least help the Firebird team to implement this support in DBX4.
[ANN] FirebirdClient v2.1.0 Beta 2 released.
FirebirdClient v2.1.0 Beta 2, ADO.NET Data Provider for Microsoft .NET
2.0, and mono is available for download.
Download information can be found here:
http://www.firebirdsql.org/index.php?op=files&id=netprovider
New Grant Allocation for Core Coding
From the Firebird Foundation blog:
The Committee announces that it has approved a new allocation to assist with the work-up and
codebase familiarisation of a “trainee” for Firebird core development.The new allocation has been assigned to Alex Krutyakov, a highly
skilled C++ developer from Moscow. His work-up will be supervised
directly by our code leader Dmitry Yemanov, for a period of six months.
Dmitry plans to ask Alex to work on several of the new modules for
Firebird 3, including:
- Large Exact Numeric support
- Built-in functions
- Shared-disk clustering research
- External database links
We extend a cordial welcome to Alex Krutyakov, who officially joins the core team on Thursday (Feb. 1st).
EMS Data Generator v. 2.3 released
EMS Data Generator 2.3 is now available and can be downloaded from the download pages Download Data Generator for IB/FB What’s new in Data Generator version 2.3 |
Firebird Embedded and .NET
I (Jiri Cincura) have created a small how-to for Firebird Embedded and .NET.